Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin

Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin at a Glance

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About Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin

THE SCOOP

Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin takes pride in its
sophisticated clientele and its reputation as â€œlawyersâ€™
lawyers.â€ In addition to all manner of high-end transactions
and high-stakes litigation, the firm also takes on the often
delicate cases in which other attorneys or law firms are
parties. The firmâ€™s nationally known clients include such
goliaths as Hewlett-Packard, Charles Schwab, Citigroup Global
Markets, the Oakland Raiders, Research in Motion, Ltd., Pacific Gas
& Electric and Sony Online Entertainment.

The firm recently argued two important cases before the California
Supreme Court. As counsel for Genentech, Howard Rice
convinced the court to overturn a $320 million award of punitive
damages and interest against the biotech giant for failing to pay
licensing fees to the City of Hope National Medical Center, a
cancer research center with whom Genentech had partnered in the
1970s. The firm has also co-authored briefs on behalf of the
city and county of San Francisco challenging the constitutionality
of the state law that defines marriage as the union of a man and a
woman. The California Supreme Court, which heard arguments in
the so-called same-sex marriage case in March 2008, ruled in May
2008 that lesbian and gay couples have the same right to marry as
heterosexual couples.

In other pro bono matters, Howard Rice successfully represented the
ACLU in a First Amendment lawsuit objecting to a federal judgeâ€™s
order to disable wikileaks.org, a web site through which anonymous
bloggers release documents of public interest, including, on one
occasion, a manual documenting U.S. Army operations at GuantÃ¡namo
Bay.